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To coincide with the major summer exhibition '21st Century: Art in the First Decade' at GoMA, the Gallery's Australian Cinémathèque presents three major cinema programs.The first is a major program of films that explores visions of the future throughout cinema history. A New Tomorrow: Visions of the Future in Cinema includes science fiction favourites and cult classics, charting alternative scenarios for civilisations to come and extraordinary explorations of new spaces, dimensions and frontiers in cinema. The program culminates in an exclusive live audiovisual remix of Blade Runner by sound artist Zan Lyons on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 February 2011. Other 21st Century Cinema programs include Unseen: New Cinema in the 21st Century showcasing new voices in contemporary cinema and Video Witness: News from the World exploring the use of digital technologies as tools in protecting human rights.

A New Tomorrow: Visions of the Future in Cinema features allegorical and often prescient films which envision possible futures. By emphasising the endless possibilities for a changing world, the program charts alternative scenarios for the future and new spaces, dimensions and frontiers in cinema. Such cinematic visions often draw on the narratives and archetypes of science fiction literature and graphic novels, and make propositions for humanity linking questions about the unknown and advances in science to speculation about human evolution and destiny. These films visualise the blurring interface between human and machine, the consequences of environmental and biological change, anxieties over surveillance and the integration of simulations into the real world, as well as the collapse of social orders and the oppression of totalitarian political systems. At the same time, they demonstrate the agency for humanity to adapt, reinvent itself and find new solutions. The program plays out the audience's hopes and fears, imaginatively prefiguring the future onscreen: from the schisms of industrialisation in Fritz Lang's wondrous city of the future in Metropolis 1927; to the epic philosophical ideas of human evolution and the expansiveness of deep space in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968; mediations on the human condition in Andrew Niccol's Gattaca 1997; the rethinking of spirituality and cosmology in Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain 2006; the world of cyberpunk replicants and bodily mutations in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner 1982 and Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo II: Body Hammer 1992; and, ultimately, to the post-apocalyptic dystopias of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men 2006 and George Miller's Mad Max 1979, and the totalitarian super states of Terry Gilliam's Brazil 1985.

Zan Lyons vs Blade Runner AV
Don't miss this exclusive audio-visual performance by Berlin-based filmmaker and sound artist Zan Lyons. With an international reputation for his uncompromising recordings and live shows, Lyons will perform with viola, foot pedals and laptop while simultaneously remixing and reworking Ridley Scott's Blade Runner 1982. Lyons has completely rewritten the film's legendary electronic score by composer Vangelis, and re-edited several scenes with his own visuals to achieve a dark and chaotic spectacle.

List of Works

• Metropolis 1927 | Director: Fritz Lang
• Things to Come 1936 | Director: William Cameron Menzies
• The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 | Director: Robert Wise
• War of the Worlds 1953 | Director: Byron Haskin
• La Jetée 1962 | Director: Chris Marker
• Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy) [Original] 1963 | Director: Osamu Tezuka
• Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy) [Remake] 1980 | Director: Noboru Ishiguro
• Fahrenheit 451 1966 | Director: François Truffaut
• 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 | Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Planet of the Apes 1968 | Director: Franklin J Schaffner
• A Clockwork Orange 1971 | Director: Stanley Kubrick
• The Omega Man 1971 | Director: Boris Sagal
• Солярис (Solaris) 1972 | Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
• Soylent Green 1973 | Director: Richard Fleischer
• Logan's Run 1976 | Director: Michael Anderson
• Mad Max 1979 | Director: George Miller
• Mad Max 2: Road Warrior 1981 | Director: George Miller
• E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 | Director: Steven Spielberg
• Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 | Director: Michael Radford
• Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) 1984 | Director: Hayao Miyazaki
• The Terminator 1984 | Director: James Cameron
• Brazil 1985 | Director: Terry Gilliam
• RoboCop 1987 | Director: Paul Verhoeven
• Akira 1988 | Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
• Total Recall 1990 | Director: Paul Verhoeven
• Delicatessen 1991 | Directors: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 | Director: James Cameron
• Alien 3 1992 | Director: David Fincher
• Tetsuo II: Body Hammer 1992 | Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
• Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell) 1995 | Director: Mamoru Oshii
• Twelve Monkeys 1995 | Director: Terry Gilliam
• Gattaca 1997 | Director: Andrew Niccol
• The Fifth Element 1997 | Director: Luc Besson
• Dark City 1998 | Director: Alex Proyas
• eXistenZ 1999 | Director: David Cronenberg
• The Matrix 1999 | Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
• Batoru rowaiaru (Battle Royale) 2000 | Director: Kinji Fukasaku
• Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001 | Director: Steven Spielberg
• Metoroporisu (Metropolis) 2001 | Director: Rintaro
• 28 Days Later 2002 | Director: Danny Boyle
• Code 46 2003 | Director: Michael Winterbottom
• Le Temps du Loup (Time of the Wolf) 2003 | Director: Michael Haneke
• The Day after Tomorrow 2004 | Director: Roland Emmerich
• V for Vendetta 2006 | Director: James Mcteigue
• Children of Men 2006 | Director: Alfonso Cuarón
• The Fountain 2006 | Director: Darren Aronofsky
• Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Jo (Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone) 2007 | Directors: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno
• Sunshine 2007 | Director: Danny Boyle
• Blindness 2008 | Director: Fernando Meirelles
• WALL-E 2008 | Director: Andrew Stanton
• Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Ha (Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance) 2009 | Directors: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno
• District 9 2009 | Director: Neill Blomkamp
• Moon 2009 | Director: Duncan Jones
• The Road 2009 | Director: John Hillcoat
• 2012 2009 | Director: Roland Emmerich